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Get localized short day-in-week name in Java
Use the ‘a’ date conversion character to display short day-in-week.
System.out.printf("Localized short day name = %ta/%Ta
", d, d);
Above, d is a date object −
Date d = new Date();
The following is an example −
Example
import java.util.Date; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; public class Demo { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Date d = new Date(); DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"); String format = dateFormat.format(d); System.out.println("Current date and time = " + format); System.out.printf("Localized day name = %tA/%TA
", d, d); System.out.printf("Localized short day name = %ta/%Ta
", d, d); } }
Output
Current date and time = 26/11/2018 11:46:45 AM Localized day name = Monday/MONDAY Localized short day name = Mon/MON
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